> but the reality most of us don't store integers in a vector or tree, we store bigger things. I work in numerical computing where storing 64/32-bit floats is

> but the reality most of us don't store integers in a vector or tree, we store bigger things. I work in numerical computing where storing 64/32-bit floats is by far the most common use case. In this world, storing a lot of small, immutable values is the norm and using pointer-heavy data structures would be a disaster. That's a good trick that I'll have to think about good ways to expose safely in a higher level language.